This Sunday A&J from 2009 seems appropriate. Things where I am are about to get worse: high temperatures in the mid 90s in coming days with (and this is the problem) high humidity and heat indices well into the triple digits. The ol’ bear will be on the prowl. Speaking of summer, in case you missed my post a few days ago, I’m trying to update regularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays until late September. I figure if I can’t update often, I can at least update predictably. Discipline! That’s what’s needed around here, discipline!
131 responses to “Shadow of a Doubt”
Good. He already knows my criteria; think his are different. Peace,
Got the news about Brooke. Despite his walk (sometimes run) on the racy side I kind of like his work and wish him the best. Jackie still praying for you too. My list of people I am praying for continues to grow. I think a part of part of getting older.
Ursen. It is. Peregrine on ledge nr artificial nestbox where this pair raises young ea. yr.
https://explore.org/livecams/falcons/falcon-nest-cam
Cassini, the spacecraft that has been investigating Saturn and its rings and satellites for several yrs, is due to plunge into the planet Sep. 15. It has already made the first of 5 passes through Saturn’s upper atmosphere, which will 1. yield more info / that atmosphere and 2. slow it down for the plunge. There’s lots of info and pictures at:
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/
I didn’t finish all the reading. You can click on this and that to see what’s available.
Alternative Fact: Actually, none of this is real. It’s a conspiracy by pretend scientists who are making it all up in a basement under the Pentagon, or maybe the Kremlin.
Peace,
emb – lovely poem. humans – sometimes we get things right. peace.
My apologies for the link….sincere apologies.
(This post is not about an Arlo & Janis topic.)
I suspect that some persons who are ardent nature lovers have never had poison ivy.
For TruckerRon: https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20840681_10154883760203581_7316556293705399991_n.jpg?oh=f8d3973fff217529a9db3b58987cbd14&oe=5A18A915
Funny! : https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20842219_10211964841708029_3742575348687175486_n.jpg?oh=2cbf5cb9332f7d35539213b082e7b1e3&oe=5A19840A
Mark: I assure you that strange things do happen at busy distribution centers, but I never was involved in anything worse than arriving with a shifted load (not my fault — I’d had to hit the brakes hard when the drunk turned into the ramp I was exiting from!). And since that load was just massive rolls of cardboard that were still intact and the load was still legally balanced, no harm was done.
As for leaving with someone or even a forklift in the trailer… Our company required us to complete the paperwork at the back of the trailer, to secure the load ourselves, and to get verbal clearance from the dock worker/manager if there wasn’t a dock lock system before removing the chocks and pulling out. Many of the docks I backed up to had the lock system with the red/green lights to verify things were either engaged or open.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNNoIfRL_E
‘… some persons who are ardent nature lovers have never had poison ivy.’ Likely, but I am and I have.
Also, some are immune. Paul, Elaine’s dad, was, but was not an ardent nature lover, just a good guy, and a top-notch father.
Peace,
Many years ago my grand mother got into smoke from weeds she was burning.
There was Poison Ivy in the weeds – she ended up in the hospital with facial swelling and
maybe internal rash.
Trucker
We used to have, if not a Cadillac, a high end Oldsmobile, dock plate. But rather fix it after
35 years, it was replaces with a go-kart. Now after 3 years it is rusted in place so we no longer drive the fork-lift into the trailer. Safer in some ways – not in others.
At age 13-14 or so, but w/ less severe results, I pulled the p. i. smoke stunt. Still an ardent nature lover. Peace,
Mark and TR, thanks for the dock stuff! I love finding out about how things work. The video was really fun—and reminded me of how impressed I am with good truck drivers.
We woke to to LOUD fire alarm. Ruined a good morning. False alarm, thank god. Hotel and firemen gracious. We,did not set it off.
Small world department, Dennis from the Village and I were born in the same tiny hospital in the same tiny yown in Louisiana and delivered by same doctor. There was only one!
All my sport coats and blazers are several years old and therefore too large on me. I took Jackie to a Goodwill store this afternoon and, although they seldom have much selection of those items, I found two blazers, one navy and one black, for $12.99 each. They appear to be not only new but unworn. (I’m thinking some guy my size must have croaked and his wife donated them.) One, I’m sure, retailed for $100-$125 and the other for $150-$175. What I paid is about what it costs to get one *dry cleaned* these days.
From the Department of Odd Things I See, a woman shopping at Goodwill had as one of her (several) tattoos one on her left outer forearm reading “Nov. 25, 2014 5:48 pm”. I hope that was the date/time of some momentous occasion in her life and not her “Use by Date”.
Also, from the same Department, yesterday afternoon during Jackie’s PT session an attractive young five foot nothing short-stack showed up, apparently straight from work, wearing a dress with a short skirt and dress shoes with platform heels. My first thought, knowing some of the odd positions PT clients have to assume, was there was no way she was there for PT…until she kicked off her shoes and started doing stair climbs and heel lifts. Her session was interesting to observe, especially when her therapist had her assume a supine position on a table with her knees lifted and parted. It’s never dull hanging with Jackie.
Today’s strip is SO me. Except I look at obituaries of singers or actors that I have never heard of. Everyone is upset, so refrain from commenting. I will read their obituary and realize why I had never heard of them!
I went to see my sister Thursday night and told her how much “together” she seems now than when I saw her in May. Her response was “Well YOU go through what I went through and you tell me how you would react!” I touched her arm and said “Oh no, no, no” I totally understood her state in May, as best as I could, and I was complementing her on her peace. She went to Italy with my wife and has been writing a book about her husband and how his death affected so many. That seems to be the key in handling her grief.
Where is everybody?
Ghost and I took my daughter and son in law out for dinner tonight. We were going to hear my criends play at a club but it is so hot and humid here. We bailed out to motel.
Dinner became a wonderful touching gift from the restaurant and made me so happy. A glorious experience. I will let Ghost elaborate.
My wife and I were on the road today, driving up to the Montana side of the eclipse track. Monday we’ll drive 90 or so miles south to Dubois ID and join the festivities there. We could go farther into the track and get a longer period of totality, but I’d rather be in a small town with friendly people instead of jostling for position in one of the few legal places to park.
I find it ironic that one of my least favorite places to visit on I-15, the DOT scales at Sage Junction Idaho, is about a half mile from the maximum eclipse line!
http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article168237347.html
I was gaming with some new acquaintances. One game called Evolution and one called Civilization. I enjoyed the first more than the second. My species kept getting eaten in the Evolution game, but it was a fun learning experience. The other was just too complicated in an uninteresting way.
This was the better of the games, to me: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/155703/evolution